Battlestar Galactica And Transformers Are Linked By One Unique Special Effect

The original Battlestar Galactica and the Transformers animated series both used the same effect to create a distinct voice.
Hackaday

Arduino Code? On My 8051? It’s More Likely Than You Think

The 8051 was an 8-bit Harvard-architecture microcontroller first put out by Intel in 1980.  They’ve since discontinued that ...
Hackaday

Analog Video From An 8-Bit Microcontroller

Although the CRT has largely disappeared from our everyday lives, there was a decades-long timeframe when this was ...
Paste Magazine

underscores makes her bid for pop stardom on U

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and ...

Blackadder, Red Dwarf and QI: How I wrote comedy’s best-loved theme tunes

I was very nearly a pop star. At 17, I signed a record deal with my band, Half Brother. Our album – of love songs – came out in the same month as the Sex Pistols’ debut, Never Mind the Bollocks, so ...
IEEE

Fregrad: Lightweight and Fast Frequency-Aware Diffusion Vocoder

Abstract: The goal of this paper is to generate realistic audio with a lightweight and fast diffusion-based vocoder, named FreGrad. Our framework consists of the following three key components: (1) We ...
IEEE

8-Bit Approximate Multiplier using Approximate Full Adder

Abstract: Approximate computing has gained significant attention in recent years due to its ability to trade computational accuracy for improvements in power, area, and speed. This paper presents ...